INDOOR. POLO ...4 Plasterer Makes Good D EVEREUX MILBURN once said that it takes seven years to make a finished polo-player, an obser- vation which fits Walter Phillips exactly. Phillips, a plasterer of walls and ceilings by prQfession, is thirty-one and now, in his seventh year of polo at Squadron A Armory, is suddenly being discovered as the outstanding performer in the Metropolitan League. Phillips rides at No.2, be- tween Robinson Shillaber and Phil Brady, on the Squadron A team that surprised many people by defeating the Pe- gasus and Ridgewood Clubs, among others, as it worked toward the league championship. Until recently, the crowd has paid little attention to Phillips . because, playing at No.2, he is usually opposed by such box-office favorites as Major Stub Davis of Governors Island, Clarence Combs of Pegasus, Merrill Fink of the New York A.C., Dean Hopper of Ridgewood, or Cyril Har- rison of Evergreen Farms. The general feeling after each game played by the unheralded Mr. Phillips has been that his supposedly superior opponent wasn't quite up to par. He learned to ride as a boy in \Vest- chester when his father, the late James A. Phillips, who founded the family's plastering business, gave him a pony. He played varsity fullback at Evander Childs High here in the city and, after gradu- ating, learned the plasterer's trade so that he could join his four older brothers in his father's contracting firm. He is still an expert hand with mortar and lath, but now he spends most of his time super- vising and at the moment is in charge of sixty men on a building up in Chap- paqua. He joined Squadron A in 1928, became adept with the pistol, and started playing polo on Squadron ponies. After a year, he decided polo was too expensive for him and gave it up. He kept in touch with the game, however, by help- ing rrom Brady referee. Later, Charles V. B. Cushlnan, a good friend of his, took him to Virginia for a season of foxhunting and Phillips found he liked that, too. In 1932, at the insistence of Winston Guest, Phillips started playing polo again; he gives Guest credit for teaching him the subtleties of riding at No.2. Although Phillips is not a spectacular polo-player, he has had his dashing mo- ments. He went to Atlantic City four of five years ago with Cushman and Douglas Hertz, who is now head of the Pegasus Club, to ride in what had been planned as a six-day pony-express race. Hertz had hired a group of cowboys and purchased several hundred Western horses with the idea of bringing the out- fit to Madison Square Garden as a rival of the six-day bicycle race. The show never got beyond Atlantic City, but it ga ve Phillips, the only amateur in the race, a chance to prove to the cowboys that he knew a thing or two about rough rid- ing. After several of them had deliberately bumped him, he upset four plainslnen in a mad two-minute sprint worthy of Wells- Fargo's wildest days. B RADY and Shillaber also learned to ride when they were young. Brady first played polo at Lawrenceville. This is his seventh year with Squadron A and he is one of the coolest backs in the ganle. Shillaber attended Princeton, but he never played polo until he joined the Squadron. For a time he took to fox- hunting, riding with the late Erastus rr eift of Brewster, who imported the first pack of \Velsh foxhounds ever seen in this country. Shillaber is an outstand- ing No. 1 man, for he knows instinctive- ly, without looking around, when to try a shot for goal and when to leave it for the teamlnate riding behind him. Both Shillaber and Brady use their own horses. Shillaber's best is a sleek, slTIooth-moving black mare named La Parraque. \Ve think rr en Below, Bra- dy's bay, is the top horse on the team. Phillips rides Sally Rand and Five Up, a pair of well-tried ponies belonging to the Squadron. Since he is just short of six feet and weighs 185 pounds, he has to be careful to save his mounts so that they won't be worn out when he needs them most. - T. O'R. . BURLINGTON, Ia. (AP)- lrs. Clara Hanna, divorced wife of John T. Hanna, prominent Burlington surgeon and physi- cian, appeared on a crowded downto\vn corner Friday afternoon with a sign which read: "Sonny and I have no money or food. Will the city of Burlington please help us?" Mrs. Hanna said her appeal is to bring the situation to the attention of the city, rather than for solicitation for funds. BULL-Sioux City Journal. Let's have no coloring of the news, please. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ;w: * .-. .;; ;:;: -: "::'::-::' ::: Ji:; t} ;....0&0 /.. ' ,r ifL L't' N; '. l!} *' :<.1:': ,!l:r"':t f , -i: ",':{ ,,' {, . >ý .;: : " '::\ 1Î?J!;:: ::r: '.' '-:'.':':':':': '* . 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